Notable Deaths

Harless Wade <br />DALLAS—Harless Wade, longtime sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News, died Saturday. He was 80. <br />Wade died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, the newspaper announced. Wade, who had been in failing health in recent years, covered golf and other sports for the paper from 1956 until 1994. <br />Wade, son of a Methodist minister, was born in Wichita Falls and grew up in Commerce. He began his journalism career at what is now Texas A&M-Commerce. <br /> <br />Janet Jagan <br />GEORGETOWN, Guyana—Janet Jagan, a Chicago native who became Guyana’s first white and first female president, has died, a government official said. She was 88. <br />Jagan died Saturday at a state-run hospital of an abdominal aneurysm, Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said. <br /> <br />Arnold Meri <br />TALLINN, Estonia—Arnold Meri, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, died Friday. He was 89. <br />Meri, a former communist party official and the cousin of late Estonian President Lennart Meri, died at his home in Tallinn. <br />—The Associated Press <br /> <br /> <br />